Apparatus for drying wet hair.



A. SOHRIEVER.

APPARATUS FOR DRYING WET HAIR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV, 24, 1911.

'1 ,081 ,064. Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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AUGUST SGI-IRIEVER, 0F COSSEBAUDE, NEAR DRESDEN, GERMANY.

APPARATUS; FOR DRYING WET HAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed November 24, 1911.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913. Serial N 0. 662,243.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUsT SGHRIEVER, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Cossebaude, near Dresden, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Wet Hair, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus for quickly drying wet hair, which is particularly designed for private use of ladies.

It is known to shift a heated core into the back of combs in order to heat the prongs of the same. It has also been proposed to insertin a comb with hollow back and teeth a heated core which fits the hollow portions of the comb, the teeth of said comb and core being V-shaped.

The invention relates to a similar arrange ment, in which, however, the teeth of the comb and core are cylindric, which above the known art has the advantage that all parts of the comb teeth are heated in a perfectly uniform way.

The accompanying drawing shows the improved apparatus.

Figure 1 is a side view of part of the same when placed on a heating source for heating purposes, and Fig. 2 shows the complete apparatus ready for use.

The apparatus comprises a handle a of any suitable non-conducting material, which carries a round cylindric metal rod 5 having metal prongs 0 like a comb, the distances between the single prongs being wide enough to allow a convenient combing of the hair.

The round rod and cylindric prongs of such apparatus, as described, are heated over any suitable heating source (see Fig. 1), for which purpose they are preferably made of aluminium, as the latter is a good heat conductor and capable of being in tensely heated.

l l l Upon the apparatus being heated, a sheet metal shell is placed over the comb, which shell consists for this purpose of a hollow comb of such dimensions that it tightly fits over the solid aluminium comb, the connection member (Z for the single hollow prongs e of said shell being of semicircular cross section, so that it also covers that side of the solid metal rod 6 which, when the apparatus is in use, lies adjacent to the hair to be treated (see Fig. 2). Any suitable metal may be used for the shell, which is preferably nickel-plated. The heatof the solid round metal rod and cylindric prongs is thus uniformly distributed over the shell placed above the same, whereby burning of the hair, which for intended use is combed with the apparatus, is impossible.

Preferably, for drying wet hair two such apparatus, as described, are used, though one shell with two solid combs may be sutlicient, one of the combs being always on the heating apparatus and the other in use with the shell thereon, which is taken oif and placed on the other comb when the combs are exchanged.

I claim:

An apparatus for drying wethair, comprising a handle of non-conducting mate rial, a solid metal comb 011 said handle, consisting of a round rod and cylindric prongs thereon designed to be heated, and a hollow nickel-plated metal comb of similar shape but of somewhat larger size and with open back designed to be tightly fixed from below over the heated cylindric prongs of the solid comb for intended use of the apparatus, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST SCI-IRIEVER. Witnesses PAUL AREAS, WILHELM MILLER.

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Washington, D. G. 

